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📅 31 October 2026 at 04:30 AM UTC

Show HN: I'm killing AI slop spam with a simple Google script

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As a founder, I've been getting an increasing amount of useless unsolicited outreach, all of which is clearly generated using AI. For some reason, Google's spam filter doesn't flag these emails as spam, so my phone buzzes throughout the day (especially in the morning) when one of these AI-generated messages arrives. I know there are some subscription tools I could use to filter these out, and there are some friction-creating tools I can use to keep them out of my inbox (like the ones that force senders to prove they're human 1x before their emails are delivered). But I figured there had to be a better solution that is (1) free and (2) not a hassle to people I correspond with. After a chat with Gemini, I ended up creating a Google script that works very well for my purposes. It simply takes

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